Here are the stats for how consumers came to my website for 2009.
Several AR members have emailed and asked how I drive consumers to my website and what about realtor.com.
If you have been reading my posts for awhile, you know I do not pay for realtor.com enhancements and this graph shows why.
To be fair I did pay for realtor.com enhancements until July 1, 2009, so if I continued to receive click throughs from realtor.com at the rate of 10-11 a month, let's be gracious and call that 130 for the entire year, (I paid about $600 last year for realtor.com), that was $4.61 per click through. Pretty steep don't you think?
Now, take a look at the number one referrer that drives traffic to my website. It's free. Yippee! There are 89 domains that referred traffic to my website in 2009 and number one is Active Rain. AR works.
Now, how or why does it work? I have checked out the stats on many of my posts and there is a direct correlation between a good, relevant post and an increase in traffic to my website for a few days following that post. Hence, when you read that bloggers should post about 3 times a week, that is why.
Most of the posts that have a lot of views and clicks (click on your home link and then statistics on the left hand side--scroll down a bit) are posts I wrote about my community such as my post on the Lake Earl Wildlife refuge, which comes up #1 in a google search for that name.
Another way clients find me is through my market reports. Two of my biggest sales in 2009 are attributable to consumers checking out my market reports on my blog.
If you aren't using your blog as a marketing tool, 2010 might be a good time to start.
Thank you for checking out my blog.
UPDATE: www.pelicanbaystateprison.net is a website I set-up to assist people inquiring about employment at Del Norte County's largest employer. I did get hits to my website from that URL, but nothing that ever converted to a sale or even led to a credible lead. I cancelled the website and put my money elsewhere.
Thank you for stopping by. Your comments on this post are welcomed and appreciated.
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